Political Correctness in Australia...

Gee, it makes me feel good to know that it's not only Canada who suffers from political correctness. Here's a silly story from Australia:

A statue in Sydney of Captain Cook bearing the inscription that he "discovered" Australia has been denounced as offensive to Aborigines.

Linda Burney, an Aboriginal MP in the New South Wales parliament, said the claim was insulting because it ignored the fact that Aborigines had lived in Australia for 60,000 years when the 18th century explorer arrived.

She conceded that the statue needed to be seen in its historical context; it was erected in the city's Hyde Park in 1879. But she said: "It is insulting in the sense that it is wrong."